Shot of my cat (i hate cats, but not this one) while sitting in bed last week, post ACL reconstruction. One of my first shots with the Pentax K10D. He was cleaning himself and I knew he'd yawn but it came a little too soon as the clouds came in and turned the window light down a few stops before i could up the iso. ended up shooting at f/2.0 which was much too shallow.

One of my first shots with my Pentax D (the original Pentax DSLR). Actually this was the 9th image i'd shot with the camera. ISO 800 and nice and clean in the highlights shadows

aren't too shabby either.

And the big adventure.

My wife looking very concerned in the family waiting room before we got called back to preop holding. She wasn't concerned about me, just the $31,000 bill she is the guarantor

on...actually our share is a meager $4000. The best surgeons in the world aren't free.

btw, was this a natural shot or in captivity. the background looks clean so matter what it's a nice shot but your so close it would require a super specialized lens to get such a good shot in the wild.

Thanks! The eagle was in captivity, she is a rescued raptor, in the shot you can see her wings aren't exactly even. When I saw her, she was being handled outside her cage and fed a freshly killed prairie dog. They let me get about 10ft away from her. I took all of the shots with my D70, and the eagle shot was: 1/400s at f5.0 using my 70-300mm VR lens at 165mm.

Thanks! The eagle was in captivity, she is a rescued raptor, in the shot you can see her wings aren't exactly even. When I saw her, she was being handled outside her cage and fed a freshly killed prairie dog. They let me get about 10ft away from her. I took all of the shots with my D70, and the eagle shot was: 1/400s at f5.0 using my 70-300mm VR lens at 165mm.

definitely would have been tough to crop in like that in a natural setting with the 70-300 but it looks like it was the perfect lens for the job. good exposure and nice and sharp. really like it. all my eagle shots have been natural and the bird hasn't been far off (in a tree under our boat several times) but I've always been caught with the wrong gear (wide-short tele zooms and a converter in a rocking boat, gear that works best for paddling, not wildlife) while paddling. the results are heavily post scan crops and not so sharp.